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Re: Gail.com FAQ

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Post by qwerty456127 »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #22

GAIL[1] is also the name of a publicly traded Indian Oil Company. Just like most pre-Internet companies that "comes online", they also went with gailonline.com just like how SBI went with sbionline.com. However, for SBI, I saw recently that they have become pretty Internet savvy -- they own the `.sbi` TLD. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAIL

> However, for SBI, I saw recently that they have become pretty Internet savvy -- they own the `.sbi` TLD.

Non-classic TLDs get the worst search and email filter ratings, don't they?

Re: Gail.com FAQ

#102

Post by smcl »

thrdbndndn wrote: post #89
samwillis wrote: post #6

See also http://nissan.com/ Background here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_v._Nissan_Comp...

http://steam.com/ used to be similar, but apparently they sold out later. I guess nothing is permanent. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20161013203919/http://www.steam.... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20220730090724/http://www.steam.... (The site is offline at the moment.)

I think this is a good example of how if your desired username/domain is already taken, there’s usually a clever tweak you can do to get a similar one that works. In the case of Steam they went with “steampowered.com” instead.

It makes me wonder why so many people go with like “firstname225” rather than spending a couple of minutes coming up with something little bit less silly-looking. In fact there was a funny thing for a while where a user iterated through all the @kevin(number) Twitter users every Friday: https://www.gawker.com/5895578/weird-internets-how-one-man-i...

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#103

Post by viraptor »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #101
Brajeshwar wrote: post #22

GAIL[1] is also the name of a publicly traded Indian Oil Company. Just like most pre-Internet companies that "comes online", they also went with gailonline.com just like how SBI went with sbionline.com. However, for SBI, I saw recently that they have become pretty Internet savvy -- they own the `.sbi` TLD. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAIL

> However, for SBI, I saw recently that they have become pretty Internet savvy -- they own the `.sbi` TLD. Non-classic TLDs get the worst search and email filter ratings, don't they?

That gets repeated a lot, but I've never seen a confirmation. There may be a perception like that because non-classic TLD are usually cheaper, which leads to easier spam. But that's still a problem with the specific domain, not the TLD.

The only confirmed thing I heard is manual email filtering where some people don't understand the bias above and ban all non-com/net/gov emails and think they're clever.

Re: Gail.com FAQ

#104

Post by paulgb »

d--b wrote: post #91
FlyingSnake wrote: post #5

Reading this felt like a trip through a portal into the nascent Internet in late 90s. I hope this never goes down.

Yes, this reminds me of 190 Bowery, a building in NYC that some photographer bought for $102k back in the 70s. He finally caved in though selling it for $55m in 2014. https://ny.curbed.com/2019/7/31/20732103/jay-myself-document...

The building was in the news again last week because it was leased as a sort of “WeWork for crypto” and had to shut down given the market downturn. https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2023/01/03/web3-co-working-hub...

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#106

Post by pachico »

Maybe because I don't understand modern CSS and part of the most new HTML markup, but I kinda enjoy reading this type of source code.

Re: Gail.com FAQ

#107

Post by JackFr »

jaredsohn wrote: post #85

Sort of related: https://asdf.com/asdfemail.html is still going strong. "You would never guess how many people use asdf@asdf.com (or some variant form) as a filler email address across the Internet. Opening up @asdf.com lets in hundreds of email messages a day pertaining to porn site registrations, real audio downloading, mailing lists dealing with Windows NT ... the list goes on and on! If you would really like to s…

A person I know whose initials are actually ASDF complains that it’s always taken as a user name.

(Although she does enjoy initialing things with just her first and last initial - AF)

Re: Gail.com FAQ

#109

Post by FinnKuhn »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #50
davchana wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, they do use bank.sbi & bankonline.sbi as redirect on some pages; for banking. For general information, they use sbi.co.in

Any idea how that can be done by entrepreneurs without having $180k in the bank? Is there a link one can read up on it? This looks like insert free real estate meme to me

It can't be done without paying between 150k and 300k, because that is simply the price for a TLD...

a short how to register your own TLD can be found here: https://dev.to/kailyons/tutorial-make-your-own-top-level-dom...

Re: Gail.com FAQ

#110

Post by zinekeller »

viraptor wrote: post #103
qwerty456127 wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> However, for SBI, I saw recently that they have become pretty Internet savvy -- they own the `.sbi` TLD. Non-classic TLDs get the worst search and email filter ratings, don't they?

That gets repeated a lot, but I've never seen a confirmation. There may be a perception like that because non-classic TLD are usually cheaper, which leads to easier spam. But that's still a problem with the specific domain, not the TLD. The only confirmed thing I heard is manual email filtering where some people don't understand the bias above and ban all non-com/net/gov emails and think they're clever.

There is some basis of the fear of new gTLDs being unfavorable. Remeber free-as-in-beer ccTLDs like .tk? They were (are?) indeed ranked lowered than .com et al due to their nature as being too easy for a spammer to have a new domain. Nowadays though most search engines now include age of domain in their ranking algorithms so this is no longer a real issue.
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